FAIRVIEW FAMILY NEWS



WEDNESDAY INVITATION

December 19, 2018

Carlton Smith

AREA WIDE DEVO

TODAY

Tara Church of Christ

5:00 p.m.

Men’s

Business

Meeting

Today, December 16th at 4:30 ~ please attend.

FOOD BOXES

Please pick-up your

requested food box

today.

Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, saying, “Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him.” 

When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.  And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born. So they said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written by the prophet:

 ‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, Are not the least among the rulers of Judah; For out of you shall come a Ruler Who will shepherd My people Israel.’ ”

 Then Herod, when he had secretly called the wise men, determined from them what time the star appeared.  And he sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the young Child, and when you have found Him, bring back word to me, that I may come and worship Him also.”

When they heard the king, they departed; and behold, the star which they had seen in the East went before them, till it came and stood over where the young Child was.

When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy.  And when they had come into the house, they saw the young Child with Mary His mother, and fell down and worshiped Him. And when they had opened their treasures, they presented gifts to Him: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

~ Matthew 2:1-11

December 9, 2018 ~ 53 a.m./20 p.m. ~ $1,506.55

Prayer

Requests

Continue to remember Rachael Dalton, Ben Born’s daughter.

Libbie Hudson requests our prayers.

Vern and Betty Morris need prayers and would like visitors.

Bill Turpin, Lourie Willard’s friend,

passed away on December 10th after

struggling with the need for a liver

transplant.

OUR MEMBERS:

Brenda Born, Dean Bruce, Chappy Chapman, Mary Frances and Wyman Clark, Sue Collins, Vern and Betty Morris, Bill and Shirley Queen, Betty Uebele, Sonny Vaughn, Amber Weathers

MISSIONS:

Robert Martin ~ Pacific Islands

Todd Storks ~ Tanzania, Africa

FRIENDS AND FAMILY:

Rachael Atchison (Courtney’s mom/mobility)

Sandra Atchison (personal & health issues)

Victoria Bates (Wyn Miller’s great-granddaughter)

Rachael Dalton (Ben Born’s daughter/cancer)

Randy Casson (Pam’s husband/vascular surgery)

Kari Clark (Jerrie Weathers’ friend/cancer)

Vaughn Cosby (Ted’s cousin/leukemia)

Barry Edwards (Wyn Miller’s cousin/kidney)

Sue Ellwood (Barbara Cooper’s sister/cancer)

Myrt Hunter (Wyn Miller’s aunt/blood disease)

Eric Lenning (Wyn Miller’s friend/leukemia)

Floyd Meeks (Tom Collins’ neighbor/back)

Megan Moon (Connie’s daughter)

Elaine Puckett (Wyn Miller’s friend/brain cancer)

Diane Queen (Bill’s sister-in-law/cancer)

Resheema (Ted Brown’s cousin/benign tumor)

Delores Smith (Dean Bruce’s sister-in-law)

Patty Tumlin (Wanda Cargle’s mom/cancer)

Cards can be sent to:

Libbie Hudson

231 Northbridge Dr.

Stockbridge, GA 30281

Shirley Queen

339 Austin Road

Stockbridge, GA 30281

Untangled Ministry

Buford Church of Christ

January 18 – 19, 2019



Great Smoky Mountain Marriage Retreat

Hosted by the Jacksonville, AL CoC

February 6 – 10, 2019

Ladies Day

Fayetteville Church of Christ

Recipe for the Heart

February 9, 2019

Progressive Meeting

February 24th -28th, 2019

Speaker: Melvin Otey

See the Thank You notes on the foyer bulletin board.

Fairview Church of Christ

And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:13

December 16, 2018

Minister:

Jerry Whitmire

678-432-4953 Home

678-492-0383 Cell

Church Info:

1048 Swan Lake Rd.

Stockbridge, GA 30281

Phone: 770-474-7107

Fax: 770-506-0136

Email: frvwcoc@

Services:

Sunday

Bible Study . . . . 9:30 a.m.

Worship . . . . . 10:30 a.m.

Worship . . . . . . 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday

Bible Study . . . . 7:00 p.m.

Worship Assignments

December 23, 2018

Announcements/Opening Prayer: Jeff Weathers

Lead Singing: Darrell Cooper

Lord’s Supper:

Ted Brown, David Samples,

C. Atchison, Jack White

Reading: Dennis Brown

Prayer: Carlton Smith

Attitude

How can one develop a proper attitude towad God? First, our attitude toward God must be based on our conviction that “He is,” and that “He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him” (Hebrews 11:6). This kind of faith will produce a good attitude of godly fear, and “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge” (Proverbs 1:7). Second, God is absolutely holy, absolutely perfect, and absolutely wise. He is grieved by evil. He loves man and wants us to love and obey Him. All of this should motivate us to want to be true to Him all the days of our life. Our attitude toward God will then be such as expressed by the heavenly hosts: “Worthy are thou, our Lord and our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power: for thou didst create all things, and because of thy will they were, and were created,” (Revelation 4:11).

The churches of Christ greet you.

Romans 16:16

Doug Dingley

Tis the season! Tis the season of gratitude, gift giving, family get-togethers, and the time of year when people are probably more open to considering, listening to, and discussing the gospel message than at any other time of the entire year. Keeping in mind the absolutely essential nature of personal evangelism in the Lord’s kingdom, tis definitely the season to take advantage of such abundant opportunities!

Now of course as we know from the gospels and the example of the Master Teacher Himself, “good teachers ask questions.” And there are many good and appropriate Bible questions and ‘conversation-starters’ that we can use to pique people’s curiosity, regarding some of those things that are typically tied to this time of year by those who don’t know too overly much about the Word of God and what it actually says. (Remember, our job is not to convert anyone, but to get people into the Scriptures and let God and His word convert them. We have the best chance of accomplishing that when we simply ask them nice, basic, non-antagonistic questions that, #1) Get them to wonder about the real biblical facts of the matter and to question their former understandings, and then, #2) Go check it out for themselves in God’s holy word.) For example, when pictures, depictions, or discussions come up regarding the “nativity scene,” we need to ask those we love, questions like: “How many wise men does the Bible say there were?” or “Did the ‘wise men’ actually visit the manger where the baby Jesus was born, or the house where He was later on?” Or perhaps we might ask, as we set around an angel-topped Christmas tree with the family, “Were there actually ever any female angels mentioned anywhere in the scriptures?”

Pique their curiosity. Make them think. Give them things to reconsider which they just took for granted that they knew. As they discover discrepancies between what they always thought for sure was true and what the God of the Bible actually says, it might just cause them to wonder about what other things they thought were surely in the Scriptures, but which never were… things like the ‘sinner’s prayer for salvation,’ instrumental music in New Testament worship, and/or, that man-made denominational churches and doctrines, which completely contradict the sacred scriptures, are still completely acceptable to God as well; or, said another way, that it doesn’t matter that much what one ‘believes,’  as long as one ‘believes.’

Tis the season to get people thinkin’! Tis the season to help people reason! Tis the season, to get ‘em to hungerin’ and thirstin’, and studyin’ and searchin’ – to questionin’ and re-searchin’!  Tis the season! And we all know what God said about that, don’t we? “Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and teaching” (II Timothy 4:2). Now is the time! Tis the season!

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